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  • I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

    As cited in "The Life of Politics" by Henry Fairlie, Methuen, pp. 203-204., 1968.
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